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34546 Little interest among Chinese students one year after NATO bombing(fwd) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > > His statements were widely reported in the Chinese press, as were >> statements made Tuesday by President Bill Clinton which said failure to >> pass PNTR would be "very unwise and precarious" from a national security >> point of view. > >Is this Clinton's line or that of the Chinese press? Clinton's. He's playing the "national security" card to pick up some wavering votes. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:55:20 PDT 2000

34547 W speaks -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] THE LIST: DSL Dubya as a Second Language 1. Vocabulary Barriffs: barriers Cuff Links: handcuffs Grecians: Greeks Inebriating: enthralling Obscufate: obfuscate Pillared: pilloried Preservation: perseverance Presumptive: presumptuous Slovokian: Slovenian Subscribe: ascribe Subsidation: Subsidization Tacular weapons: tactical weapons Tenants: tenets Terriers: tariffs Vile: viable Vulcanize: balkanize 2. Grammar Laura and I really don't realize how bright our ch ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:52:26 PDT 2000

34548 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Its breadth included the >cultural and psychological elements that so charm the LBO-talk academics You know, Ken, I admire all the activist work you've done over the years,I really do, but this constant anti-intellectualism, which I supposed is meant to heighten the contrast between people who've done real politics, like you, and those who are just a bunch of academic wankers - well, it gets very tedious. Alienating and pointlessly divisive too. >The mass movem ...

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34549 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >Like what Yoshie is doing is cool. Who cares >if she thinks there are four genders? Does there always have to be an even number? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:52:26 PDT 2000

34550 growth -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "christian a. gregory" <gregoch at mail.auburn.edu> Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:38:10 -0500 Dennis Redmond wrote: "Per capita growth in this expansion has been pretty dismal, lower than the 1970s, the EU and Japan have grown about as quickly, while the US is $2 trillion in debt to the latter and must import $400 billion a year to keep itself afloat. But okay, Perry isn't an economist, we can forgive him for that. " Hunh? Real GDP grow ...

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Date:	Sat May 6 15:04:22 PDT 2000

34551 "I have an activist heart, but I am a capitalist tool." -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >To be avoided at all costs is a >book from those Red Orange folks, " The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural >Studies Reader edited by Donald Morton Salt Kondracke. Who blurbed James Heartfield's Need & Desire in the Post-Material Economy, as I recall. Right, James? Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 14:56:48 PDT 2000

34552 "I have an activist heart, but I am a capitalist tool." -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >TNR Online | A Day at the National Mall by Sarah Wildman This book caught >my eye the other day. "Homo Economics : Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian >and Gay Life, " by Amy Gluckman (Editor), Betsy Reed (Editor) The editors >are on the editorial collective of Dollars & Sense. Here is the Urvashi Vaid >review from the amazon.com (boo hiss!) website. Update: Besty Reed is now a senior editor at The Nation. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 12:09:44 PDT 2000

34553 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Of the last 3000 posts, the word "desire" appears in 105. I suspect >>for some that's 105 too many. >> >>Doug > >You think that its total elimination is their heart's desire? That would be yielding to bourgeois sentimentality & individualism. It is, rather, an objective necessity. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 5 10:53:58 PDT 2000

34554 The "crazy-insane, unbelievably dangerous" market -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick quoted: >Druckenmiller Back during the government shutdown idiocy a few years ago, Druckenmiller went before a Congressional committee and urged the Treasury to default. Lots of people scratched their heads, wondering why a guy who owned billions in U.S. paper would recommend such a course. A bond trader explained to me what he thought Druckenmiller's reasoning was: for a big bondholder, the biggest fear is default, so Druckenmiller wanted that fear in the markets, so the event it ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 10:32:08 PDT 2000

34555 New Left Gossip -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >I find that conservative writers have become intellectually lazy in many >ways Boy, ain't dat da troot, and not just as writers. When I have rightwingers on the radio, or appear with them on someone else's radio show, I'm struck by how weak they are. It's like no one ever asks them a difficult question; I guess they've gotten soft from their victories over the last 20 years. The more imaginative of them will just lie - "A flat tax isn't a gift to the wealthy" ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 10:11:42 PDT 2000

34556 Executive Order on Establishing the Kosovo Campaign Medal -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary (Davenport, Iowa) ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release May 3, 2000 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - ESTABLISHING THE KOSOVO CAMPAIGN MEDAL By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including my authority as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as f ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 09:16:44 PDT 2000

34557 campus news -- rank: 1000

[from Sam Smith's Progressive Review] ON CAMPUS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: With the support of university students nationwide, eight garment workers have won their struggle against their former sweatshop employer. Today, they will announce a settlement at a press conference at the University of Southern California. In November, the workers came forward to file a federal lawsuit against J.H. Design Group, a garment factory where they worked sewing jackets for USC, UCLA, Indiana, Michigan, ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 09:15:46 PDT 2000

34558 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >We can read here literally hundreds of posts on the nuances of sexual >desire and satisfaction, which are taken oh so seriously by our scholars, but >not one serious discussion of, let alone a declaration of support for, the >brave Austrians who have battled selflessly on behalf of immigrants whom >their bourgeoisie and their country's fascists have terrorized. This is >Marxism? Bullshit. It is narcissism, no matter how much windy dialectical >mysti ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 09:02:33 PDT 2000

34559 U @ 3.9%; wages jump -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal website - May 5, 2000 Unemployment Rate Fell to 3.9%, And Wages Shot Higher in April An INTERACTIVE JOURNAL News Roundup WASHINGTON -- The unemployment rate in April fell below 4% for the first time in 30 years and wages jumped, offering no relief from concerns that the tight labor market may spark inflation. See the full text of the Labor Department's April employment report. The jobless rate fell to 3.9%, matching a figure not seen since January 1970, the Labor Department s ...

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Date:	Fri May 5 08:51:51 PDT 2000

34560 Pavlovian marketing -- rank: 1000

[The "herding cats" graf is an interesting comment on Hayekian info-hoarding critiques of planning. Enemies of psychology, please explain the last paragraph.] Wall Street Journal - May 4, 2000 Casino Chain Mines Data on Gamblers, And Strikes Pay Dirt with Low-Rollers By CHRISTINA BINKLEY Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL TUNICA, Miss. -- She doesn't know it, but Linda Maranees is the subject of a behavioral experiment that could change the odds of the gambling business. The Mem ...

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